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Trying to avoid conflict? Why that’s the wrong strategy
Harmony in a leadership team can be seductively alluring, an ideal to aim for… It can also be a recipe for poor quality decisions and less creative thought, maintaining a course for the status quo. Thinking about the leadership team you are part of, how well do you...
The Perils of a Functional Leadership Team
There is a massive opportunity cost for being a Functional Leadership Team! Sadly, if the result of a quick poll I did last week on a webcast is indicative, almost half of you are part of a Functional Team. (See the flipchart below from this session – the blue figures...
Who gets to decide? Fearless Leadership teams know who decides
Who gets to decide? When I work with senior leadership teams, it is often apparent that there is a lack of clarity between what is an executive team decision, and what decisions lie with individual executives, or even below executive level. This lack of clarity leads...
Could all teams benefit from Fearless Leadership?
‘Could all teams benefit from Fearless Leadership?’ This fabulous question was asked by a director when I presented to the board about the Fearless Leadership program their exec team was mid-way through. My response? ‘Yes all teams could benefit… And not all teams are...
7 things leaders can do to build an inclusive world
Leadership Great South Coast is a community leadership program including leaders from multiple sectors across Western Victoria. In this year’s cohort are two local Indigenous leaders. Recently we had a conversation about the Black Lives Matter movement, and how white...
7 indicators that you are really seen as a leadership team
Thinking about the leadership team that you are on... Are you seen as a team? Or just a group of senior leaders? This is an important question at any time. Even more so now when many leadership teams are working remotely and clear leadership is needed for confidence...
Courage: What it is and isn’t
Courage is an important leadership quality, especially right now. My last blog - and webcast last week - on courage in a leadership team generated lots of interest. How does courage between peers on a senior leadership team play out? And what does it look like when we...
The dos and don’ts of courage in an executive team
Courage is a critical element of Fearless Leadership®. One of the deepest forms of courage is required in the way you work with your peers on the leadership team. In Fearless Leadership Teams, courage coexists with compassion and curiousity. Here are 3 dos of courage:...
Banishing the dangerous limitations you put on yourself
Sometimes the greatest restrictions we face are the limitations we put on ourselves, often without us being consciously aware of them. Examples of this were very apparent last week in my first face-to-face Fearless Leadership® workshop (socially distanced of course)...
The one lesson from Harvard I can’t ignore
This time last year, I was lucky enough to be attend Harvard University and complete The Art and Practice of Leadership Development Executive Program. At the time, I blogged about the 5 leadership lessons I learned. Julie Garland McLellan invited me via LinkedIn to...